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Ynstruction of the ephimeredes

by: Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547

Publication date: 1540
Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics: Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Ephemerides--Early works to 1800, Codices, Manuals (instructional materials), Tables (documents), Manuscripts, English--16th century, Manuscripts, Renaissance, 16th century, English, England
Collection: openn; americana; upenn
Contributor: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Language: Middle English
Rights: Public Domain
Item Size: 49.2M

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 188. 1540. Copy of the first of the six texts in Opusculum astrologicum, ex diversorum libris, summa cura pro studiosorum utilitate collectum, in a 16th-century English translation. Instructions in 22 chapters for the use of the Ephemerides of Regiomontanus, astronomical tables giving the positions of planets, the sun, and the moon. Includes tables for the latitude of the moon, hourly motion of planets, duration of lunar eclipses, and lunar motion. A table for the risings and settings of fixed stars is rectyfyed to the yere of our Lorde 1540 complete (f. 17r). This manuscript was part of Bute MS 13 (formerly f. 101r-120v), followed by another section (formerly f. 124r-141v), now LJS 191, University of Pennsylvania.

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